Zhang Yan got dressed and immediately opened the door, and when he saw Xu Sheng standing at the door, he raised his leg and stepped out of the threshold, then closed the door again, and said to Xu Sheng: "Go!" Go to the school grounds. ”

Xu Sheng nodded, and seeing that Zhang Yan's complexion was not good and he didn't seem to have any energy, he asked, "Did the lord not rest last night?" How do you look listless? ”

"Oh, yes? I slept late yesterday. ”

Xu Sheng let out an "oh" and didn't ask any more, but he soon found that Zhang Yan hadn't walked a few steps before he began to yawn.

On the school field, the 30,000 army was assembled, Zhang Yan, accompanied by Xu Sheng, came to the general platform, Chen Deng, Chen Qun, Mi Fang, Lu Dai, Deng Yi, Wang Bo and others saw that Zhang Yan's complexion was not good, and he looked a little haggard, and they all knew that it must be caused by Zhang Yan's excessive indulgence when he was in the cave room last night.

However, no one spoke up, and everyone just knew these things in their hearts. Zhang Yan's late arrival this time is probably due to excessive indulgence.

Chen Deng walked to Zhang Yan's side and bowed respectfully: "My lord, the soldiers have been waiting here for a long time. ”

Zhang Yan said: "I'm really sorry to keep everyone waiting for a long time." Since the whole army is here, let us do what I told yesterday and start moving. ”

"Whoa!" Chen Deng and the others replied in unison.

Zhang Yan asked people to bring his dark cloud snow horse, and after riding on the horse, he looked majestic in his helmet and armor, and he shouted loudly in front of everyone: "Go!" ”

The army was instantly divided into two, Chen Deng, Xu Sheng, Lu Dai, Deng Yi, Wang Bo and others each led the army to follow behind Zhang Yan, while Chen Qun and Mi Fang stayed in the city.

The army set off from the east gate of Pengcheng and headed towards Tancheng.

……

Shanyang County, Gaoping County.

In the hall of the county office, Cao Ren was sitting precariously, and a map was spread out on the table in front of him, and he was carefully examining it.

According to the scout's report, in order to deal with Cao's army, Zhang Yan implemented the method of clearing the wilderness with strong walls, and the three places of Qi County, Guangqi, and Liuxian under the rule of Peng Cheng have become a ruin, and there is not a single figure to be seen within a hundred miles. Even the villages where they could stay were burned down by a fire.

Last winter, Cao's army defeated Pengcheng and retreated in hatred. Since then, Cao Jun has been following Peng Cheng's every move, and learning that Peng Cheng built a new city under Zhang Yan's governance and actively trained the army, which made Cao Jun very uneasy.

For this reason, Cao Cao specially formulated this strategy of attacking the east and west, that is, he wanted to avoid Pengcheng, which was heavily defended, and attacked from the Langya area, and approached the city of Tancheng with lightning speed.

But Cao Cao still had a little concern, he was worried that Zhang Yan would copy his back road, so he deliberately left 30,000 soldiers and horses in Gaoping County, with three purposes, one is to contain Zhang Yan, the second is to prevent Zhang Yan from taking advantage of the situation to sneak into Yanzhou, and the third is to attack Xuzhou from here.

Therefore, Cao Cao was also very serious when choosing generals, and after some careful consideration, he finally chose Cao Ren.

Cao Ren was Cao Cao's brother, skilled in archers and horses, and well versed in the art of war, and he was also a general under his tent who could take charge of his own affairs, whether it was offensive or defensive, he could communicate to Cao Cao in a satisfactory way.

At this moment, Cao Ren is paying close attention to the battle situation in Xuzhou, he has just received a report from the scout, saying that Cao Cao has led a large army to break into the territory of Langya, and the counties along the way have surrendered without a fight, making Cao's army like a bamboo, and now the army has approached the city of Kaiyang.

Cao Ren glanced at Kaiyang City on the map, and then looked at Tancheng, and said with a smile: "The lord led an army of 70,000 and suddenly launched an attack on Langya, and arrived at Kaiyang City within one day. At that time, the lord can attack Tancheng with confidence......"

"General Qiyu! There is news from Pengcheng! Le Jin strode in from outside, holding a letter in his hand, and his face was even more joyful.

When Cao Ren heard this, he hurriedly said, "Bring it to me!" ”

Le Jin walked up to Cao Ren and handed the letter to Cao Ren, Cao Ren opened the letter, hurriedly read it, and immediately hahadaxiao said: "God help me!" God help me! ”

Seeing this, Le Jin hurriedly said: "General, this is the best time to take revenge, please don't miss the opportunity!" ”

Cao Ren lowered his head again, looked at the contents of the letter again, and then said: "Zhang Yanming knows that we still have a large army stationed here, and he actually dares to take a large army to Tancheng to help, will there be fraud in this?" ”

Le Jin said: "How can this be deceitful? Tao Qian concentrated half of Xuzhou's troops in Pengcheng and handed it over to Zhang Yan to command, the purpose of which was to defend our army. Now the lord led the army to attack from Langya, to Tao Qian's surprise, Kaiyang is tight, and the troops are small, once Kaiyang is lost, Tao Qian's Tancheng will be directly attacked by the lord, Tao Qian will definitely let Zhang Yan lead troops to support, even if Zhang Yan doesn't want to go. General, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, as long as the general gives an order, order all the soldiers and horses, and a certain person is willing to be the vanguard of the general and open the way for the general! ”

Cao Ren frowned, still hesitating.

Seeing Cao Ren's thoughtful look, Le Jin hurriedly said: "General, don't you forget, the general's own brother Cao Chun, but he was shot to death by Zhang Yan himself, doesn't the general want to avenge Cao Chun and slash the enemy?" ”

As soon as Cao Ren heard Le Jin's words, a surge of anger surged in his heart, and his eyes shot out a fierce light, and in a fit of anger, he pulled out the sword in his waist and directly cut the table in front of him in two.

"Zhang Yan and I don't share the same sky, if he kills my brother, I will kill his whole family. Immediately order to go down, order all the soldiers and horses, and set off with the whole army, aiming at Pengcheng! Cao Ren roared angrily.

After hearing this, Le Jin felt happy in his heart, and at the same time, there was a trace of murderous aura on his face, and after answering with a fist, he turned around and walked out.

When Cao Cao attacked Xuzhou last year, he asked Lejin to lead soldiers and horses to protect grain and grass and garrison Pei County, but he was attacked by Zhang Yan and burned the grain and grass hoarded by Cao's army. Not only that, but even Cao Cao's eldest son, Cao Ang, was also beheaded by Zhang Yan.

For this reason, Le Jin was almost killed by Cao Cao, but fortunately he was persuaded by the generals to be freed from death. However, Lejin's position as a lieutenant was cut and he became an ordinary soldier.

After Cao's army retreated, Le Jin also returned to Yanzhou with the army, and later there was a rebellion in the city state, and the army to which Le Jin belonged was sent to quell the rebellion, he was brave and invincible in the battle, and killed the head of the thief, when he was rewarded for meritorious deeds, he was promoted to military Sima by Cao Cao, and was subordinate to the account of Cao Ren, the captain of Li Feng.

This time Cao Cao plotted against Xuzhou, Le Jin was the most active, he asked Cao Cao for his life, wanting to be a pioneer, but Cao Cao took into account the mistakes Le Jin had made before, and did not dare to use him again, so he refused Le Jin. So Lejin had to continue to stay under Cao Ren's account and stayed in Gaoping County.

However, Le Jin is looking forward to fighting as soon as possible, as long as he fights, he can get more military merits, so as to regain everything he has lost.

At the same time, Le Jin also hated Zhang Yan, and he wanted to cut off Zhang Yan's head with his own hands to be ashamed.

Therefore, this time, as soon as he learned that Zhang Yan had led a large army to support Tancheng, he couldn't bear it anymore, and quickly came to Cao Ren to persuade Cao Ren to send troops to attack Pengcheng and copy Zhang Yan's back road.

Cao Ren has always been cautious, but this time is indeed a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, not to mention that his younger brother Cao Chun also died at the hands of Zhang Yan, and he also wanted to avenge his younger brother Cao Chun, so he agreed to send troops.

The army of 30,000 was soon gathered together, and Cao Ren personally led the army to Pengcheng as soon as possible, but let Le Jin be responsible for escorting the grain and grass, obviously wanting to take the credit for this attack on Pengcheng.

Although Le Jin was extremely dissatisfied with this arrangement, he couldn't do anything about it, after all, Cao Ren was the boss, he was just a military horse, and he couldn't compete with Cao Ren at all.

However, Le Jin had his own way, he let his subordinates be responsible for escorting the grain and grass baggage, and followed behind the army, but he himself secretly ran to the front army, looking for opportunities to make meritorious contributions.

Cao Ren led a large army, a total of 30,000 horses and feet, and the army set up a long snake formation, galloped in the direction of Pengcheng, and soon left Yanzhou and entered the Pengcheng boundary of Xuzhou.

Cao Ren took the lead, wearing a helmet and armor, leading a thousand cavalry first, followed by all the infantry troops, a line of 30,000 people, all the way to the south, with the fastest speed, along the Surabaya south, in the evening, arrived at the border of Guangqi County.

However, everywhere Cao Jun passed, there were uninhabited ruins, and seeing that the sky was getting dark and the soldiers and horses were tired, Cao Ren ordered people to rest in place, but sent scouts to inquire around to see if there was a place to stay.

After some time, the scout returned and informed Cao Ren that although the county seat of Guangqi had become a pile of ruins, there were still many good houses to live in.

So Cao Ren took the army to the abandoned Guangqi County, and sure enough, he found a few good houses, so Cao Ren let the army spend the night here, he chose the most haode by himself, took off the armor and helmet, and ordered someone to bury the pot for cooking.

By nightfall, Cao Ren had eaten and drunk enough, he lit a bonfire in the house, lay down on a soft haystack, and soon fell asleep.

The rest of the Cao army was also tired from the day's journey, so they rested early.

The soldiers of the Cao Army, who were in charge of the night patrol, were also a little careless because there was no man's land for hundreds of miles around, and they were no longer so conscientious to stand guard.

The night gradually deepened, and when it arrived, there was a sound of snoring everywhere in the ruins of Guangqi County, which showed how fragrant these Cao soldiers slept well.

However, they didn't know that an army was secretly approaching this place, gradually surrounding it.

"Kill!"

A horse galloped out, carrying a majestic knight on the horse's back, reflecting the dim moonlight, and his face could be vaguely seen, it was Zhang Yan.